Conditional Methods

One of, if not the most important concepts in software programming is that of Conditional Methods. Conditional methods provide a program with the ability to make decisions based on user input, user selections or data values. The code below is a simple example of a conditional method:

When run, it opens a console and requests the user to enter a value. It then checks to see if something was entered. Here is the condition… IF there was a value entered, display it ELSE notify the user that nothing was entered. In a more sophisticated software program the question or condition could be more complicated. Perhaps something like this: